Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
- 6.4
- 87 mins
- Drama
Storyline
Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready to take on every social ill and neither Congress, gangsters nor the nations of the world will stop him.—Erik Gregersen
Plot Keywords
bribery, hunger, yacht, dictator, prohibition, firing squad, organized crime, statue of liberty, u.s. capitol building, concussion, baltimore maryland, protest march, washington d.c., title spoken by character, death of father, gunshot wound, bombing, great depression, bootlegger, martial law
Short Review
Gregory La Cava's 1933 New Deal fantasy is one of the strangest political films to escape the studios.
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